HOURS: W, Th, F 2-7pm & Sat. 12-4 pm

Milton Rogovin is one of the foremost social documentary photographers of the 20th century. He photographed low income and working class people for 50 years and often said: “The rich have their own photographers. I have chosen to photograph the poor.” As Milton returned, decade after decade, to Buffalo’s Lower West Side he was often greeted with tears and the salutation, “The Picture Man is back!”  Milton Rogovin’s photographs celebrate community, legitimize and make visible the lives of common people, and bring dignity and hope to all our lives.

In 1999 the Library of Congress accepted Milton’s entire body of work.

To read a review of this exhibit by Nancy Keefe Rhodes visit:

http://www.cnylink.com/cnyarts/view_news.php?news_id=1257441229

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This is the last week to see the work of

BEEHIVE COLLECTIVE!

exhibit runs thru October 24, 2009

HOURS: W, Th, F 2-7pm & Sat. 12-4 pm

The Beehive Design Collective is a 100% volunteer driven non-profit political organization that uses graphical media as educational tools to communicate stories of resistance to corporate globalization. The purpose of the group, based in Machias, Maine, is to “‘Cross-pollinate the grassroots” by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images that can be used as educational and organizing tools. The Beehive Collective is most renowned for its large format pen and ink posters, which seek to provide a visual alternative to deconstruction of complicated social and political issues ranging from globalization, free trade, militarism, resource extraction, and biotechnology. 

The Bees will give a presentation prior to the opening reception on September 17th as a part of Syracuse’s Third Thursday events. They will also give workshops for high school and college students at Cazenovia College during their stay. Storytelling is a major facet of the Collective’s educational work. Members of the group undertake international lecture circuits with giant fabric reproductions of their posters as storytelling aids.

“Picture lectures” frequently feature a Plan Colombia graphic thirty feet in height and a six foot tall fabric flipbook/storybook used as a sequential visual tool.

Keep visiting our website for updates on the films and presentations accompanying the exhibit. ArtRage is handicapped accessible. Off-street parking at 408 & 414 Lodi Street

La Americana is an intimate documentary following an undocumented immigrant’s journey from Bolivia to New York City and back, as she struggles to save the life of her ailing daughter. Her unforgettable story is woven into the current immigration crisis in the United States, putting a human face on this timely and controversial issue. Through interviews, reenactments and a sweeping cinema-verite narrative, La Americana takes its viewers on an international journey following the personal and political tragedy faced by one undocumented immigrant in New York City. The story begins several years ago, in the poorest country of South America.

When nine-year-old Carla falls gravely ill, her mother Carmen must leave her behind and make the dangerous and illegal journey to New York. Carmen hopes to earn enough money to support her ailing daughter realizing she may never see her again. Six years later, U.S. Congress proposes amnesty legislation that may allow the mother and daughter to reunite.  La Americana is Carmen’s story, and the story of millions of illegal immigrants forced to leave their families behind in order to provide them a better life. It is the story of a continent divided not by values, but by a physical and political barrier that separates families indefinitely, sometimes forever.

For immigrants themselves, the film empowers by giving voice to a common struggle. For native audiences, the film provides a chance to step into the shoes of the other. In this way, La Americana can both be a bridge within communities, as well as a call to action.

Join representatives from the ACLU and the Detention Task Force for this film screening and informative discussion. This unforgettable story puts a human face on the controversial issue of the immigration debate.

FREE TO THE PUBLIC

Join us for a presentation from local activists who traveled to spend time in Chiapas learning about Democracy from those who were willing to grab it out of the hands of politicians!

The event will be a multimedia presentation from the International Caravan for Observation and Solidarity with Zapatista Communities, Brigade to La Realidad, focusing on the history of the Zapatista movement, autonomous government, health and education.

On January 1st 1994, a rebel army called the Emiliano Zapata Liberation Front (EZLN) rose against the Mexican government in Chiapas, Mexico. The Zapatista movement has been organizing indigenous communities in the state of Chiapas in Mexico’s southeast for over 25 years, building local autonomy and improving daily-life conditions (for women, in health and education) in a “war against oblivion” as free trade threatens the livelihood of rural indigenous communities.

The Zapatista zone has around 32 rebel municipalities that refuse to recognise the Mexican or local state government. These municipalities send delegates to the council that organises the rebellion, the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee (CCRI). The Zapatistas are involved with a Peace Process. But in this process not even the CCRI can make decisions, instead each document produced by the talks, or any proposed change in tactics, must first be decided by all the communities. Right now some tens of thousands of people are making decisions in this way.

“The indigenous movement in which zapatismo is inscribed is not trying to return to the past, nor to maintain the unfair pyramid of society, just changing the skin color of the one who mandates and rules from above. The struggle of the Indian peoples of Mexico is not pointing backwards. In a linear world, where above is considered eternal and below inevitable, the Indian peoples of Mexico are breaking with that line and pointing towards something which is yet to be deciphered, but which is already new and better.”

FREE TO THE PUBLIC